NDP Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath has issued the following statement on the urgent need for an Ontario-wide COVID-19 emergency response plan:<\/p>\n
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\u201cOntario\u2019s public health units and frontline medical teams are doing an exceptional job\u00a0containing\u00a0the COVID-19 virus, and I\u2019m grateful for their tireless work. I am hopeful this outbreak is not going to get worse, and patients with the virus today will make swift recoveries.<\/em><\/p>\n \n It\u2019s becoming increasingly disturbing that no plan has been communicated to cope with a potential influx of patients, since hospitals are already bursting at the seams. Workers may have to go to work sick because there\u2019s no plan to\u00a0make it easy for them to stay\u00a0home. Businesses have\u00a0heard of no government plans\u00a0or programs they can look to for assurance that they\u2019ll be\u00a0helped through\u00a0the economic storm, or that recovery, if necessary,\u00a0will be supported by the province. The economy is showing signs of trouble, and Mr. Ford has said nothing helpful.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \n As Leader of the Official Opposition I have requested an immediate meeting with\u00a0Doug Ford\u00a0to discuss COVID-19 and to urge him to publish a comprehensive COVID-19 emergency response plan for Ontario.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NDP Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath has issued the following statement on the urgent need for an Ontario-wide COVID-19 emergency response plan: \u201cOntario\u2019s public health units and frontline medical teams are doing an exceptional job\u00a0containing\u00a0the COVID-19 virus, and I\u2019m grateful for their tireless work. I am hopeful this outbreak is not going to get …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2285],"class_list":["post-29214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-wuhan-novel-coronavirus"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 03:22:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29215,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29214\/revisions\/29215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}